From Laugh-O-Nomics:
“There Was This Principal, See, Who Went To School…
…and he learned how to be funny.If you think humor is just for kids, shame on you.
Where most corporate types go wrong is in assuming that humor = jokes. Or clown noses. Or punchlines. Fun can come in many different shapes, forms and places.
I recently returned from a motivational seminar on humor in the workplace for the Farmington Unified School District in New Mexico. (Actually, we met in Colorado…. just a few miles from their district across the border.) I met principals and administrators who really liked the idea of “play” at work. I was able to help them find ways to transform their corporate humor culture and their funny bones in the process. However, as usual, the best humor at work ideas came from the audience.
During the seminar, we looked at ways humor and levity could make any environment a little lighter — resulting in better productivity, morale, and retention. And, in a academic environment where things have to be very precise and “above the line”, it means that the administrators and leaders have to be more clever and more creative in finding the balance to make work and humor mesh…”
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